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Reacting will result in that you commit to these rules and that you will do effort for this project, unless you already proved your commitment to LinuxMCE

This is an attempt to create a structured workgroup to establish the following:

What

What the workgroup will be about

re-doing the manual?

re-organise the wiki?

maintaining the wiki!/manual

WhoPeople who cannot code, but want to helpPeople with common sensePeople with endurance (deadlines will be made and kept)People with team spirit

WhyIt is needed, but it is not possible to let this be done by one person, or persons who do not commit themselves to the task.Experience tells me, a lot is said, and done for 2 - 3 months and the initiator flies away. I want to prevent this. That is why we need a team.

What notPeople who think they can influence the direction of the Dev'sPeople who think they gain power and influence doing thisPeople who do not listenPeople who think that managers are the greatest asset to a company (they are not, I know, I am a manager)People who think that tedious jobs will be done by others

I know it is a niche market, but we are apperantly the only with the knowledgeIn the end we will be a knowledge powerhouse, if we organise the wiki properly, and that will attract a lot of positive attention.

However, Between my 9-5 (which is more like 7-6), my clients on the side, my new born, and most importantly my wife, I don't know how much time I'll be able to commit. I'll give it a shot but this will come after all the above. I know everyone has a story but I'm just setting your expectations for me.

I agree that time is an issue for everybody.But if we divide everything into smaller tasks it doesn't matter that you have little time at least if you keep your promisses if you take a task upon you.

The wiki is huge and dis-organized.I saw a lot of ideas going around

Just putting it out there.Some tasks that need to be done.

Make it more clear / easier for newbies We have to redo the manual / frontpage wiki, the important part about this that it needs to be maintained. If we have the proper people with skills, redo the youtube video

We lack uniformityTry to come up with some form of standardisation for that pages, this is going to be a rough one

Maybe a new task is to make a self-help advisory pagee.g. how to report a trac ticket, where the logs are, how to get into irc etc etc etc etc. So information about bugs can be presented to dev's more easily. A lot of time I see in IRC dev's explaining where to get information to see what is wrong.

However, Between my 9-5 (which is more like 7-6), my clients on the side, my new born, and most importantly my wife, I don't know how much time I'll be able to commit. I'll give it a shot but this will come after all the above. I know everyone has a story but I'm just setting your expectations for me.

How will we be coordinating our efforts (email, PMs, IRC, or posts)?

I propose we use this topic to identify tasks, and then make forum post of them

We can also make a wikipage, to make an overview of who is doing what.

Maybe it is best to firstly make a draft of manual/frontpage/howto's instead of making it directly in the now present wiki pages.